Wendy's did away with their yummy smashed flat square grease burgers, though. These new ones are just meh.

Nobody mentioned White Castle? I loves me 6 double cheeses with extra onions and pickles.

White Castle goes bad after about ten minutes. I don't know how people prefer that.

You all are smoking crack with the burgers you suggest ...

I love In-N-Out. but I've got to try Five Guys.

Me thinks ssorenn has been hitting the sauce a bit much tonight.

I recommend Big boys if there's one in the area's you guys live at trust me its good

Shake Shack makes a damn good no frills burgers.

Five Guys is GOAT

Wendy's is best drive-thru

Wut! Are you saying Wendy's doesn't do those flabby square patties any more? I used to love those. Especially when jammed together in a half-pounder? (Is that the world's largest fast-food burger? Does anyone else do a half-pounder or larger?) They stopped doing business in the Uk about ten or twenty years ago and I never had one in the States.

Triples were even better. 3/4 pounders. And Burger King does a triple whopper which is a full pound as the Whopper patty is 1/3rd pound. But no, Wendy's changed to a "premium" patty to compete with 5 Guys, but it is a crap burger. No flavor at all.

You realize those are the precooked weights, right guys? You don't get nearly what they advertise. When sit-down restaurants advertise their half-pounders, most are presenting the after-cooked weight (Matt, if you're reading this, I could really use a good reference, and I still know the other things too...). You should always check to see if the number advertised is precooked or not, because by advertising the precooked weight they make their burgers look a lot cheaper than they are when they are really not that much cheaper than a good half-pounder at a decent sit-down place.

Actually, sit downs are also precooked weights. They use a better grade of beef with less fat so you get more after cooked weight. But try cooking up a pound of 73/27 ground beef (the cheap stuff) and eating it. It's still a hell of a lot of meat.

@ bo: the determination of food's weight is always precooked. If not, chefs would have to weigh out burgers differently based on the temperature they cooked them to..and you can bet no self-respecting chef would add meat to a well done burger.

No, many places advertise aftercooked weight. They'll offer you a half pounder, 8 ounce burger, which is around 11 ounces precooked. If you cook it longer, it will be a little bit lighter. The place I worked at for a couple of years is famous for its full pounder and everyone reads on the menu that it's 22 ounces precooked. The advertised weight is based on medium well and everyone has that information at their disposal. You get ripped off by precooked weight.

Precooked weight is an industry standard. It's perfectly fine to go over it, like the place you worked, but if a restaurant gets a visit from the Department of Weights and Measures and they're not weighing out pre-cooked product to the advertised weight, then fines will be handed out.

Hey Jim, what do you do for a living?

Oh Bob, I work for the Department of Weights and Measures!

Wow, Jim, that's so cool, said no one ever.

How's your baseball career coming?

My shoulder told me to get out so I did.

Basing recipies on the weight that things would be *after* they have been cooked make no sense.

That's why places do it. It's noteworthy that you aren't ripping people off.

If you're going to kill yourself, do it at Rally's.

Five Guys is terrible. Their fries are godawful.

Places that follow the laws of the land are not ripping people off, bo. Any poster or sign that shows the weight of a burger must contain a disclaimer stating that the weight is precooked.

I'm the COO of a specialty foods and catering company, so I'm not just making this stuff up.

Because a COO would never make an excuse for ripping people off. If you're advertising an 8 ounce burger, serve an 8 ounce burger. Don't cook it down under 6 ounces and call it 8 but clear yourself with some tiny print that no one without a high powered microscope handy can read. I'm glad I worked at a place that cared about making their customers happy consistently and providing great service and great people as they did about making money.

Wendy's got much better what is Draug even talking about

Wendy's new burgers are lumps of meat with no taste. Bring back the old smashed in the steam grill burger. You know, like Steak n Shake makes.

bo, just because you're uniformed, doesn't mean that I'm ripping people off.

Who are you, krellin? Yeah, it's a rip off that places advertise something different than what they sell and cover themselves legally with fine print. You make a lot of money off of it so of course it means nothing to you.

It's not a rip off. Only an idealistic kid would think it is.